Paper dress-up manikin
Paper dress -up dolls (other common names are "paper dolls", "cut-out dolls", "paper dress-up dolls", "almond bows" and "paper dolls") are figures cut out of paper or cardboard , to which separate paper clothes can be "put on" by hanging up or hanging on the curtains. can. They have been an inexpensive, popular children's toy for almost two hundred years. Meanwhile, some artists have made paper dress-up dolls an art form.
history
The forerunners of the cut-out dress-up dolls were copperplate engravings that show historical and foreign costumes or traditional costumes, then, from the later 18th century, the fashion journals with their illustrated supplements, such as those widespread in Germany from 1786 with the Journal des Luxus und der Moden were. The oldest known cut-out sheet with paper dress-up dolls is a sheet printed around 1650 in southern Germany with various pieces of clothing, headgear, hairstyles and accessories for two women in the holdings of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg . A more recent arch from 1788 is in London's Victoria and Albert Museum .
While these carefully drawn graphics conveyed the latest fashions to the interested ladies of the middle class, in the 19th century the range of dress-up dolls soon turned exclusively to girls, it also served children's longing for beautiful clothes with stencil-colored lithographs on cheap paper.
With one isolated exception around 1700, the oldest cut-out sheets with dressing-up figures as a variant of picture sheet production date from the years soon after 1830. Early examples offer both front and rear views, which, glued together at the edges, could be slipped over the paper bodies. Since the end of the century, clothing items with folded flaps that were only hung in front of the figures have predominated. Its thematic spectrum is broad, but with restrictions: gardeners and craftsmen can also be found in their work clothes, but elegant social clothes and cloakrooms predominate. In Wilhelmine times, the whole ruling house marched up to dress. As in the three-dimensional dolls up to around 1900 mainly adults are depicted, children did not appear as a subject for dress-up dolls until the 20th century.
Paper dress-up dolls were now used for advertising, appeared in magazines and newspapers, and covered a variety of subjects and time periods. They became sought-after collector's items after the Second World War, especially as old specimens become rarer over time due to the limited lifespan of paper. To this day, dress-up dolls are still made from paper or distributed over the Internet for printing. Virtual (like the Kisekae Set System ) or online dress-up dolls are also very popular, and users can also dress up in photographs.
literature
- Sigrid Metken : Cut paper. A history of cutting out in Europe from 1500 to today . Munich 1978.
- Sigrid Metken: dress-up dolls. In: Christa Pieske: ABC of luxury paper, production, distribution and use 1860–1930. Museum for German Folklore, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88609-123-6 , pp. 82–84.
- Margit Gabriel: From the practice of dress-up puppetry. In: Puppen und Spielzeug , 1979, Heft 4, 1980, H. 2 und 3, 1981, H. 2.
- Heiner Vogel: picture sheet, paper soldier, dice game and wheel of life. Leipzig and Würzburg 1981, pp. 63f., 230f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fragment of a cut-out sheet: Dressing sheet (southern Germany around 1650). In: Object catalog of the collections. Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, accessed on February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Jutta Zander-Seidel: In Mode: Dresses and Pictures from the Renaissance and Early Baroque . Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-936688-96-2 , p. 179-180 .
- ^ Paper doll, 1788 (made). In: Museum number: E.1178-1974. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .